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Despite research I have yet to find another case report of a living, growing mollusk found a month after traumatic inoculation

FOAMtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 099: FOAM

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This week in Sydney, FOAM has been on everybody’s lips. But what is FOAM, where does it come from, and how do we get it off? In this entirely factually correct 99th edition of FFFF, we put FOAM under the microscope. Can’t see a friggin’ thing.

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 098: Comebacks

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FFFF isn’t dead. It just smells funny. Incredibly it has returned from its shallow grave for the 98th edition. And this time we celebrate – the comeback.

Thank FFFF It’s Christmas

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This year we celebrate the festive season with an eclectic collection of 12 festive related questions to amuse and bemuse….

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 097

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A recent study found that noise levels in Australian EDs exceed those in the chimpanzee enclosure in Whipsnade Zoo. So what chance have we got of detecting a tell-tale palatal click, or the characteristic hum of a pulsatile cervix?

Superbugs in the News

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In case you missed it, ABC’s 4 Corners ran a story on multi-resistant organisms.

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 096

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“Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Fair enough, we all love messing about in boats. But – smearing honey on orifices? Experimenting on nuns? Squeezing fish?

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 095

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Another Friday, another FFFF… this one focuses on fighting dogma with the topic of ‘medical reversals’.

Funtabulously Fearful Friday Five 094

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It’s Friday the 13th LITFLers… so of course this week’s FFFF will test your knowledge on all types of fearfulness related to this inauspicious date.

Funtabulously Frivolous Flyday Five 093

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Flying corpses, drug-fuelled orgies and things that go squish in the night: there is a distinctive buzz about this week’s Funtabulously Frivolous Flyday.